Last year two researchers at Australia’s University of Newcastle published a paper after consulting a group of pre-school children on the design of a new early childhood setting: ‘Children’s voices: Inclusive early childhood placemaking with children’ by Karen Watson, lecturer in early childhood education, and Linda Newman, honorary associate professor.
What they did: Researchers worked with 26 children aged three to five at an early years setting in a low socio-economic, ethnically diverse Sydney suburb. Over four days they began by asking the children to take photos of places they liked most. They took almost 400 photos, which researchers sorted into nine categories, including ‘nature’ for plants, rocks or gardens, ‘small spaces’ where children could hide, and ‘relationships’, which were pictures of friends or adults.
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